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IMEBESS 2018
The Fifth International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sciences
Florence, May 3–5 2018
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Invited Speakers
Herbert Gintis is External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, and Professor Emeritus at the Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is an American economist, behavioral scientist, and educator known for his theoretical contributions to sociobiology, especially altruism, cooperation, epistemic game theory, gene-culture coevolution, efficiency wages, strong reciprocity, and human capital theory. Macartan Humphreys is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, Director of the Research group “Institutions and Political Inequality” at the WZB in Berlin, founding member of the Experiments in Governance and Politics network, and President of the APSA Experiments section. He works on the political economy of development and formal political theory, with focus on post-conflict development, ethnic politics, political authority and leadership, and democratic development, often conducting field experiments. He has worked in Chad, Ghana, Haiti, Indonesia, Liberia, Mali, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Uganda, and elsewhere.
Dean Karlan is Professor of Economics and Finance at Northwestern University, President and Founder of Innovations for Poverty Action, and founder of Impact Matters. His research focuses on microeconomic issues of poverty, typically employing experimental methodologies and behavioral economics insights to examine what works, what does not, and why in interventions in sustainable income generation for those in poverty, household and entrepreneurial finance, health behavior, and charitable giving. He works on issues for low-income households in both developing countries and the United States.
Cristine Legare is Associate Professor of Psychology, and Director of the Cognition, Culture, and Development Lab at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research examines the interplay of the universal human mind and the variations of human culture to address fundamental questions about cognitive evolution and cultural learning. Her work draws from cognitive, cultural, developmental, educational, and evolutionary psychology as well as cognitive and evolutionary anthropology and philosophy. She has conducted experimental and ethnographic work in southern Africa, Brazil, China, and Vanuatu.
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Conference Organizers
Michele Belot Jordi Brandts Raymond Duch University of Edinburgh, and Barcelona Graduate School of Nuffield College, University of European University Institute Economics, CSIC and CESifo Oxford, and CESS Enrique Fatás Laura Fortunato Diego Gambetta Loughborough University, Magdalen College, University of European University Institute, and Universidad del Rosario Oxford, and Santa Fe Institute and Nuffield College, U. Oxford
Klarita Gërxhani David Klinowski European University Institute Santiago CESS
The International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sciences (IMEBESS) is a succession of the International Meeting series on Experimental and Behavioral Economics (IMEBE). IMEBESS brings together researchers in all areas of the social sciences interested in experimental methods. We believe that behavioral economics is increasingly informed by a very diverse range of research traditions, including anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, and sociology. IMEBESS had its inaugural meeting at Nuffield College, University of Oxford in 2014. Since then the meeting has occurred annually, at the Institute for Advanced Study at Toulouse in 2015, at the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli in 2016, and at the Universitat de Barcelona in 2017.
IMEBESS 2018
Thursday, May 3 — Day 1
08:00
Bus Departure From: Hotel de La Pace, via de La Marmora, Florence To: Badia Fiesolana, European University Institute
08:30–09:15 Badia Fiesolana
Registration
09:15–10:45
Session 1A Refettorio
Session 1B Sala del Capitolo
Session 1C Seminar Room 2
Session 1D Seminar Room 3
Parallel Sessions 1
Managerial and Personnel Interactions - Manu Muñoz: “Efficiency in the Workplace: Crowding-in Intrinsic Motivation in a Multitasking Setup” - Greer Gosnell: “The Impact of Managerial Practices on Employee Productivity: A Field Experiment with Airline Captains” - Timo Vogelsang: “Individual Incentives, Performance Monitoring and Supervisor Feedback – Evidence from a Field Experiment in a Retail Chain” - Angela Sutan (chair): “How do Information Technologies and Communication Technologies affect employees’ discretion and production?”
Education - Eli Spiegelman: “What are we teaching them? Increasing the sophistication of dishonesty in business school education” - Ivan Soraperra: “A market for honesty. An experiment on corruption in the education sector” - Henning Mueller: “Effects of Performance Transparency in a Mathematics E-Learning Application: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial” - Oliver Himmler (chair): “Relative Feedback and Academic Performance -- A Field Experiment in Higher Education”
Charitable Giving - Egon Tripodi: “Sorting into Incentives for Prosocial Behavior” - Ganga Shreedhar: “Seeing red, but acting green? Experimental evidence on the impact of the media content of biodiversity conservation videos on charitable donations and affect” - Gerhard Riener: “Intrinsic Value of Decision Making: Evidence from a Charitable Giving Experiment in Egypt” - Kate Laffan and Joel Suss (chair): “Man's search for wellbeing”
Public Goods and Common-Pool Resources - Sarah Ciaglia: “Why Comply? Experimental Evidence on the European Stability and Growth Pact’s Incentives for Member States” - Youenn Loheac: “Geographic proximity, information and common-pool resources: an experimental approach with a large population” - Luca Zarri (chair): “Do Peer Approval Concerns Promote Cooperation in Public Goods Experiments?”
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Thursday, May 3 — Day 1
Session 1E Seminar Room 4
Parallel Sessions 1 (continued)
Gender I - Robin Devroe: “Determinants of Flemish voters’ political gender stereotypes. Evidence from an online survey experiment” - Arthur Schram: “Revisiting the Gender Effects of Competition: Social Status Concerns and Rivalry for Resources are Substitutes” - Jordi Brandts (chair): “Status-Ranking Aversion”
10:45–11:15 Badia Fiesolana
Coffee break
11:15–11:30 Refettorio
Welcome and introductory remarks – IMEBESS Organizers
11:30–12:30 Refettorio
INVITED TALK I – HERBERT GINTIS
12:30–14:00 Badia Fiesolana
Lunch
14:00–15:30
Session 2A Refettorio
Session 2B Sala del Capitolo
Parallel Sessions 2
Dishonesty I - Eugenio Verrina: “When the State Doesn’t Play Dice: An Experimental Analysis of Cunning Fiscal Policies and Tax Compliance” - Caroline Stein: “The effect of whistleblowing policies on internal reporting and lying behavior” - Eugenia Polizzi: “Tell me if you eat, I’ll tell you if you cheat: exploring the effect of metabolic alterations on (dis)honesty” - Valerio Capraro (chair): “The Good, the Bad, and the Angry: An experimental study on the heterogeneity of people’s (dis)honest behavior”
Attitudes toward Policy - Björn Bremmer and Reto Burgisser: “Public Preferences Towards Fiscal Policies: Evidence from two Survey Experiments on Budgetary Priorities and Trade-Offs” - Macarena Ares Abalde: “What counts? Social policy priorities of citizens in Europe” - Honorata Mazepus: “How are citizens' judgements about international cooperation shaped? Experimental evidence from the Eastern periphery of Europe” - Juan Fernández (chair): “How does knowledge on societal ageing affect attitudes towards welfare state reform? Evidence from a survey experiment in Germany, Spain and the United States”
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Thursday, May 3 — Day 1
14:00–15:30
Session 2C Seminar Room 2
Session 2D Seminar Room 3
Session 2E Seminar Room 4
Parallel Sessions 2 (continued)
Refugees - Eric Skoog: “Threatened Values: An Experimental Test of Group Affiliation” - Mario Scharfbillig: “How to motivate refugees – identity-framed communication” - Johanna Gereke: “Altruism, trust and right-wing support in the presence of newcomers: Eastern Germany after the refugee crisis” - Delia Dumitrescu (chair): “How Visuals of Different Refugees Impact Refugee Support at Home: The Role of Ideology and Moral Emotions”
Coordination - Emike Nasamu: “Leader and Coordination in Complex team Games” - Leonardo Boncinelli: “Does Focality Depend on the Mode of Cognition? Experimental Evidence on Pure Coordination Games” - Antonio J Morales: “From foragers to farmers: A lab experiment on the evolution of human values” - Amrita Dhillon (chair): “Social Connections and Financial Incentives: A Quasi Field Experiment in India's Manufacturing Sector”
Cooperation - Teresa Backhaus: “God may play dice, but do we?” - Angelo Romano: “Prestige-bias Learning and Intergenerational Cooperation” - Simona Cicognani: “Cooperating when the end is near: the impact of cognitive ability and task complexity” - Aljaz Ule (chair): “Economic foundation of meaning: Cooperation, coordination and symbolic communication”
15:30–16:00 Badia Fiesolana
Coffee break
16:00–17:30
Session 3A Refettorio
Session 3B Sala del Capitolo
Parallel Sessions 3
Memory, Cognitive Load, and Skill in Games - Peter Duersch: “Measuring skill and chance in games” - Andreas Drichoutis: “Economic rationality under cognitive load” - Susann Fiedler: “The indirect costs of being individualistic: Understanding the link between social preferences and memory performance” - John Smith (chair): “Judgments of extent in the economics laboratory: Are there brains in choice?”
Tax Compliance - Tim Lohse: “Compliance in Teams - Implications of Joint Decisions and Shared Consequences” - Sarah Necker: “The supply of undeclared work - Evidence from a natural field experiment” - Jan-Emmanuel De Neve: “Behavioural insights and tax compliance: Evidence from large-scale field experiments in Belgium” - Raymond Duch (chair): “The distributive basis for tax compliance”
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Thursday, May 3 — Day 1
16:00–17:30
Session 3C Seminar Room 2
Session 3D Seminar Room 3
Session 3E Seminar Room 4
Parallel Sessions 3 (continued)
Macroeconomics - Anita Kopányi-Peuker: “Are sunspots effective in a big crowd? – Evidence from a large-scale bank run experiment” - Olivier Armantier: “Overcoming Discount Window Stigma” - Stefanie J Huber: “Preference for Housing Services and Rational Housing Bubbles” - Antonio Filippin (chair): “Monetary Effects of Keeping up with the Joneses”
Conditional Cooperation and Indiscriminate Punishment - Christiane Reif: “Match Point - Experimental analyses on different matching rates” - Francesco Fallucchi: “The strategic sophistication of conditional cooperators: Evidence from public goods games” - Anna Rita Bennato: “When coordinated punishment promotes good citizenship” - Maria Bigoni (chair): “Blind rage: Inequality, intentions, and indiscriminate punishment”
Discrimination and Evaluation of Traits - Alexander Bor: “Economic voting and candidate trait evaluations - A mediation analysis” - Boris van Leeuwen: “The effect of facial similarity on preferences and beliefs” - Stefanie Reher (chair): “The Role of Disability in Candidate Evaluations”
17:45–19:15
Session 4A Refettorio
Session 4B Sala del Capitolo
Parallel Session 4
Inequality and Redistribution - Veronica Rattini: “A Tale of Two Cities: An Experiment on Inequality and Cooperation” - Stefania Bortolotti: “Betrayal, Risk Taking, and Redistribution” - Thomas de Haan: “Fairness Preferences in the Face of Limited Information” - Luis Miller (chair): “Individual correlates of market personality”
Sanctioning - Martin Vollmann: “Measuring the Willingness to Pay (not) to get Verbal Feedback in Allocation Decisions” - Robert Stüber: “Willful Ignorance and Altruistic Punishment” - Rustam Romaniuc (chair): “Expungement: Experimental Evidence”
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Thursday, May 3 — Day 1
17:45–19:15
Session 4C Seminar Room 2
Session 4D Seminar Room 3
Session 4E Seminar Room 4
Parallel Sessions 4 (continued)
Ideology and Partisanship - David Comerford: “Being Better Off And Not Knowing It: Affective Bias And Judgments Of Trend” - Alexandra Cirone: “Under Pressure: Political Geography of Mobilization” - Anselm Rink: “How Strategic are Political Activists? Evidence From a Natural Field Experiment” - Hans Noel (chair): “Is John McCain more conservative than Rand Paul? Using activists' pairwise comparisons to measure ideology”
Individual and Group Decision Making - Justin Buffat: “The Intrinsic Value of Decision Rights: Team vs Individual Decision-Making” - Claudia Schwirplies: “The risks that farmers take: an experiment on externalities with individual thresholds inspired by fertilizer use” - Joerg Weber: “Assessing choice overload in a complex environment” - Daniela Glätzle-Rützler (chair): “Patience in collective decisions: Experimental evidence on the role of group composition”
Voting - Brett Carter and Erin Baggott Carter: “Does External Facing Propaganda Work? Evidence from Russia Today and American Voters” - Raisa Sherif: “Sanctioning, Selection and Pivotality - Theory and Experimental Results” - Alexander Bor: “When should the majority rule? Experimental evidence for Madisonian judgments in five cultures” - Helia Marreiros (chair): “Voting as a War of Attrition”
19:15–20:45 Badia Fiesolana
Cocktail Reception
21:00
Bus Departure From: Badia Fiesolana, European University Institute To: Via della Dogana, Florence
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Friday, May 4 — Day 2
08:30
Bus Departure From: Hotel de La Pace, via de La Marmora, Florence To: Badia Fiesolana, European University Institute
09:30–11:00
Session 5A Refettorio
Session 5B Sala del Capitolo
Session 5C Seminar Room 2
Session 5D Seminar Room 3
Session 5E Seminar Room 4
Parallel Sessions 5
Gender II - Giang Tran: “Intertemporal Social Preferences” - Christina Rott: “Increasing Workplace Diversity: Evidence from a Recruiting Experiment at a Fortune 500 Company” - Laura Razzolini: “Best-of-five Contest: An Experiment on Gender Differences” - María Cubel (chair): “Gazes and numbers: Two experiments in strategic sophistication and gender biases”
Migrants - Johanna Gereke: “Ethnic Diversity and In- and Out-group Cooperation: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Milan” - Flavia Fossati: “The Signalling Value of Labour Market Programmes” - Sabrina Jeworrek: “Gift-Exchange in Society and Individuals’ Attitudes toward Supporting the Integration of Immigrants” - Moti Michaeli (chair): “Civicness drain: Emigrants’ self-selection and social norms in the place of origin”
Markets - Ferdinand Langnickel: “Naïve News Trading: Experimental Evidence” - Katharina Momsen: “Recommendations in Credence Goods Markets with Horizontal Product Differentiation” - Vanessa Valero: “Is Social Responsibility a Normal Good?” - Martin Angerer (chair): “Arbitrage bots in experimental asset markets”
Morality - Sakshi Ghai and Francesca Papa: “Nudging Ethicality” - Florian Schneider: “Immoral labor markets” - Anouk Schippers: “The Social Discomfort of Doing Good - Moral Outliers and Social Norms” - Matthias Greiff (chair): “Sharing Responsibility for the Good: An Experimental Investigation”
Climate Change - Reuben Kline: “High Risk and High Reward Decision Making for Climate Change Mitigation” - José Santiago Arroyo: “Economic behavior of fishers under climate-related uncertainty: Results from field experiments in Mexico and Colombia” - Marco Casari (chair): “Carbon is Forever: A Climate Change Experiment on Cooperation”
11:00–11:30 Badia Fiesolana
Coffee break
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Friday, May 4 — Day 2
11:30–12:30 Refettorio
INVITED TALK II – MACARTAN HUMPHREYS
12:30–14:00 Badia Fiesolana
Lunch
14:00–15:30
Session 6A Refettorio
Session 6B Sala del Capitolo
Session 6C Seminar Room 2
Session 6D Seminar Room 3
Parallel Sessions 6
Anxiety, Depression, Stress, and Sleep Deprivation - Nora Grote: “tress and Innovative Activity – A Laboratory Experiment” - Simona Grassi: “Gender Differences in the Effect of Anxiety on Cognitive Performance: Evidence from an RCT” - Christiane Schwieren: “Under Pressure: Depression and Group Performance - an Explorative Study” - David Dickinson (chair): “Bayesian versus Heuristic-based choice under sleep restriction and suboptimal times of day”
Dishonesty II - Romain Ferrali: “Bad apples in a barrel. Field evidence about corruption in organizations” - Giulia Andrighetto: “Does Honesty Facilitate Cooperation?” - Georgia Michailidou: “Interdependent Lying Costs: Theory and Experimental Evidence” - Michel Marechal (chair): “Civic Honesty across the Globe”
Ethnicity and Religion - Luis Artavia-Mora: “‘Help, Prejudice and Headscarves” - Sayan Banerjee: “Dynamics of Ethnic Party Competition: Violence, Economic Patronage & Public Goods Provision” - Nan Zhang: “Stereotypes and Social Norm Enforcement in Interethnic Encounters: Survey Evidence and Behavior in the Field” - Ozan Aksoy (chair): “The politics behind the veil”
Beliefs - Jesal Dilip Sheth: “The persistent nature of naivety about hidden information: An experimental investigation” - Andrea Martinangeli: “Do what (you think) the rich will do: inequality, belief formation and group identity in public good games” - Jana Willrodt: “Is there a "true" consensus effect?” - Luca Polonio (chair): “Testing the level of consistency between choices and beliefs in games using eye-tracking”
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Friday, May 4 — Day 2
14:00–15:30
Session 6E Refettorio
Parallel Sessions 6 (continued)
Prosocial Preferences - Elisabetta Leni: “Guilt Aversion and Trust: An Analysis of Heterogeneous Factors” - Zvonimir Basic: “Self-Image, Social Image and Prosociality” - Lukas Wenner: “Present-Biased Generosity - Dynamic Inconsistency and Social Preferences in Effort Allocation Tasks” - Valerio Capraro (chair): “What’s the right thing to do? Increasing pro-sociality with simple moral nudges”
15:45–17:15
Session 7A Refettorio
Session 7B Sala del Capitolo
Session 7C Seminar Room 2
Parallel Sessions 7
Risk and Insurance - Santiago Gomez-Cardona: “Effects of Non-Insurable Risk on the Demand for Weather Insurance. Experimental Games with Colombian Coffee Growers” - Peter Robinson: “Determinants of probability weighting and probability neglect: The role of emotions, risk perception, and personality in flood insurance demand” - Jan Jozwik: “Behavioural Factors and Agricultural Innovation: Experimental Evidence from cocoa farming in Ghana” - Francesco Cecchi (chair): “Loss and Ambiguity Aversion and the Willingness to Pay for Index Insurance: Experimental Evidence from Rural Kenya”
Exposure to Violence - Joan Barceló: “The Effects of Violence on Voting Behavior: A Field Experiment” - Krzysztof Krakowski: “Ethnic Riots and Pro-Social Behavior: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan” - Elisa Cavatorta: “Does exposure to violence affect reciprocity? Experimental evidence from the West Bank” - Elias Dinas (chair): “State Violence and Support for Secessionism: Evidence from an OECD Democracy”
Social Influence - Andrew Ross: “‘Vox Twitterati’: Investigating the Effects of Social Media Exemplars in Online News Articles” - Vincenz Frey: “Social Influence Undermines the Wisdom of the Crowd in Sequential Decision-Making” - Philipp Albert: “Peer Effects of Intentions: Performance Goals vs. Task Difficulty” - Maxime Derex (chair): “How does social information affect individuals' inferential ability?”
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Friday, May 4 — Day 2
15:45–17:15
Session 7D Seminar Room 3
Session 7E Seminar Room 4
Parallel Sessions 7 (continued)
Social Norms - Ivo Schurtenberger: “The Dynamics of Norm Formation and Norm Decay” - Simona Cicognani: “The drunk side of trust: Social capital generation at gathering events” - Aron Szekely: “Norm Emergence and Change in Threshold Cooperation Problems” - Wojtek Przepiorka (chair): “Technology use and norm change in online privacy: Experimental evidence from vignette studies”
Fairness, Transparency, Reputation, and Precautions - Alice Guerra: “Accident aversion: An experiment” - Chi Trieu: “Who should (not) benefit from affirmative action?” - Jozef Zagrapan: “Does the Freedom of Information Law Increase Transparency at the Local Level? A Field Experiment” - Sotirios Georganas (chair): “Driving to the Beat: reputation vs selection in the taxi market”
17:15–17:45 Badia Fiesolana
Break
17:45–18:45 Refettorio
INVITED TALK III – CRISTINE LEGARE
19:00
Bus Departure From: Badia Fiesolana, European University Institute To: Terrazza Brunelleschi
22:30
Bus Departure From: Terrazza Brunelleschi To: Via della Dogana, Florence
IMEBESS 2018
Saturday, May 5 — Day 3
08:30
Bus Departure From: Hotel de La Pace, via de La Marmora, Florence To: Badia Fiesolana, European University Institute
09:30–11:00
Session 8A Refettorio
Session 8B Sala del Capitolo
Session 8C Seminar Room 2
Session 8D Seminar Room 3
Session 8E Seminar Room 4
Parallel Sessions 8
Microfinance - Lisa Spantig: “The Endowment Effect and Savings Decisions of the Poor” - Emilia Tjernström: “Seeds of Uncertainty: Information, subjective expectations, and technology adoption” - Simeon Schudy (chair): “Leadership qualities, group norms and group performance – Evidence from microcredit lending groups in rural Bangladesh”
Nudges and Incentives - Andrej Woerner: “Exercising More with a Matched Bet” - Gauri Chandra: “Non-Monetary Interventions to Discourage the Use of Plastic Bags, and their Spillover Effect” - Arianna Galliera: “Gas self-read: using message to motivate behavior and improve consumer awareness” - Claus Ghesla (chair): “Nudging the Poor and the Rich - A Field Study on the Distributional Effects of Green Electricity Defaults”
In-group Favoritism - Christine Stedtnitz: “The effect of a perceived loss of status on openness to false facts in political campaigns” - Jana Cahlikova: “Group Membership Magnifies the Dark Side of Human Social Behavior” - Konstantinos Matakos: “How does group identification affect redistribution in representative democracies?” - Ori Weisel (chair): “The effect of perceptions of intergroup conflict on in-group love and out-group hate”
Risk, Ambiguity, and Portfolio Choices - Noemí Herranz-Zarzoso: “Framing and Repetition Effects on Risky Choices: A Behavioral Approach” - Jiakun Zheng: “Ambiguity, Dynamic Consistency, and Commitment: A New Story Learned from Ellsberg Urns” - Daniela Di Cagno: “Learning how to avoid sub-optimality” - Giovanni Ponti (chair): “An experiment on outcome uncertainty”
Dishonesty III - Felix Klimm: “Suspicious Success - Cheating, Inequality Acceptance and Political Preferences” - Puja Bhattacharya: “Timing of Communication” - Francesca Marazzi (chair): “Telling the Other what One Knows? Mutually Truthful or Mutually Lying: Cheap-Talk in Modified Acquiring-a-Company Experiments”
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Saturday, May 5 — Day 3
11:00–11:30 Badia Fiesolana
Coffee break
11:30–12:30 Refettorio
INVITED TALK IV – DEAN KARLAN
13:00
Bus Departure From: Badia Fiesolana, European University Institute To: Via della Dogana, Florence
The Fifth International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sciences
Florence, 3–5 May 2018
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